Opening: Saturday, December 5th, 7-10 PM
December 6th, by appointment

Place: 260 Butler Street, Brooklyn 11217

Goodnight Analog. This year on June 12, 2009 as 12 midnight stroked, analog TV broadcast ceased and, by act of Congress, we switched to digital signal. Technologies pass, transition, and new ones emerge to continuously reframe and reshape our lives. Across mediums even the most mimetic of translations create and expose differences. Stuff gets lost and new information is revealed and now it's a changed situation. This show looks at work concerned with issues of transition and translation - from one medium to another and the liminal spaces created along the way.

On the eve of this digital transition, Lisa Albaugh photographed all 23 channels that came in on her soon-to-be outmoded TV antenna. An index of all the signals available at a single location at the twilight of analog broadcast. Channels of all snow. On others, the broadcast sports, commercials, dramas and sitcoms are caught, stilled, haunted with ghost images and static waves. A single moment in time, a space in continuous flux. Together these images create a type of Muybridge motion study of our lives shifting, framed within the technologies we manufacture.

Skyler Brickley's paintings emerge out of a desire to translate the relationship between time and digital media into paint. At the heart of digital technology, as he sees it, lies the gap between theory - if something can be coded digitally, then it can be replicated perfectly, and infinitely - and real world transitions, which inevitably bend to the effects of age, cultural codes and technological limits. Using the most simple of tools: paint tray and roller, Brickley layers fields of dots to achieve qualities of light built from pieces of color. The light one feels before a computer screen or experiences as bits of narrative magnified or when one has transitioned from Seurat through Mac or PC and spiraled partway back again.

S.E.Nash's paintings are cut, routed, woven, painted, and constructed forms that relate simultaneously to the grand physicality of architecture, the flatness of graphic design and the referential language of painting. Scale and proportion are confounded as 2 and 3D are intertwined. Informed by technology, machinery and the urban environment these works are conceptual loops - analog, digital and material. Cobbled together, möbius strip translations of solar panels, space exploration, computer processors, virtual networks and technological waste that as a group, explode the form of painting into a landscape of uncanny architectures.
Goodnight Analog everywhere...

Available Space is a quarterly exhibition project of artists Kristi Kent and Keith Sklar in their live-work home. Future exhibitions will include art events and shows across a variety of disciplines. Our hope is that this venue will help artists come together to reassess, reinvent and reassert the ways we make, exhibit and understand what it is we do.